CVE-2007-3576
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 executes web script from URIs of arbitrary scheme names ending with the "script" character sequence, using the (1) vbscript: handler for scheme names with 7 through 9 characters, and the (2) javascript: handler for scheme…
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.9%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 executes web script from URIs of arbitrary scheme names ending with the "script" character sequence, using the (1) vbscript: handler for scheme names with 7 through 9 characters, and the (2) javascript: handler for scheme names with 10 or more characters, which might allow remote attackers to bypass certain XSS protection schemes. NOTE: other researchers dispute the significance of this issue, stating "this only works when typed in the address bar.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 12.87% probability · 96th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/internet explorer
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://groups.google.com/group/php-ids/browse_thread/thread/3ec15f69d6b3dba0Exploit
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070702/ie60-protocol-guessing/Exploit
- http://osvdb.org/45813
- http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?2%2C13209%2C13218
- http://www.0x000000.com/?i=375Exploit
- http://groups.google.com/group/php-ids/browse_thread/thread/3ec15f69d6b3dba0Exploit
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070702/ie60-protocol-guessing/Exploit
- http://osvdb.org/45813
- http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?2%2C13209%2C13218
- http://www.0x000000.com/?i=375Exploit
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.